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Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Hans Christian Andersen

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. – The sea witch.
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Princess Sea Stupid
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.
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Inspirational Moving Travel
Don’t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more!
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Ask Me More Understanding
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.
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Duckling Eggs Swans Ugly
A human life is a story told by God.
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Condolences Grief Human Life Sympathy
Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.
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Different Men Mind Precular
Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.
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Fall Girl Grandmother Someone Stars
Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.
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Brave Brave Soldiers Soldier
The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
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Bad Good Shining Sun
It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.
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Clear Higher Power Providence
I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.
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Glorious Happiness Knowing Stars Years
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
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Men Wise Writing
Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.
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Enjoy Improvement Life Self
Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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Flower Nature Philosophical
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.
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Fairy Tale Real Salt
Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.
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Air Clear Dust Glitter Stars